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All this may be true, and yet it seems to me to leave the individual no option but to follow conscience as the guide to civic action.
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Harold J. Laski
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Laski believes individuals have no choice but to follow their conscience in civic matters.
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Yet such defects must not blind us to the general rightness of their insight.
The more equality there is in a State, the more use, in general, we can make of our freedom.
The charge that he supported the Revolution in America and deserted it in France is without meaning; for in the one there is no word that can honorably be twisted to support the other.
Montesquieu thus became the prophet of a new race of thinkers.
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